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...juicy non-scandal. In 1981, President Carter nearly sued The Washington Post for claiming he'd had the place bugged. The paper's executive editor, Benjamin C. Bradlee, scoffed at Carter's demand for a public apology, saying, "How do you make a public apology - run up and down Pennsylvania Avenue shouting, 'I'm sorry?'" After the Post story came out, a former executive editor of the New York Times revealed that he had once caught Soviet security guards meticulously checking then-Premier Leonid Brezhnev's room for hidden recording devices during his 1973 visit with Nixon. (You know, just...
...first Surgeon General of the United States. Its second owner was Francis Preston Blair, a Kentucky journalist whose favorable coverage of President Andrew Jackson helped him land an editorial position at the pro-administration D.C. newspaper, The Globe. Blair, whom Jackson had personally invited to Washington, moved into 1651 Pennsylvania Avenue in 1837. It remained in his family for the next 100 years...
...Army; where General William Tecumseh Sherman married the daughter of the Washington Senator who had adopted him; and where Presidents Martin van Buren and William H. Taft sought Blair's counsel. (Apparently as in real estate, politics too is all about "location, location, location." From his residence at 1651 Pennsylvania Avenue Blair became a "Kitchen Cabinet" member to many a president after Jackson...
...White House was being renovated. One of the men was arrested, the other was killed during a shoot-out with police. Truman remained at Blair House despite the attempt until the restorations were finished in 1952. (By 1982, however, workmen had started in on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue after a chandelier collapsed in one of Blair House's 119 rooms...
...into the Blair House on Thursday). Barring traffic around the posh accommodations, just across Lafayette Park from the White House, has clogged the capital's arteries. It's also compounding the crosstown traffic crawl, which has only gotten worse since President Clinton shut down the nearby two blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in 1995 following the Oklahoma City bombing...